How might a legislation pupil go about constructing peace? You may graduate and snag a Biglaw gig and funnel many of the cash to direct motion organizations that feed and assist of us get out of poverty. You may host negotiation or mediation clinics that foster battle decision abilities so communities can resolve points with out resorting to violence. You may even use ChatGPT! A legislation pupil made a current contribution to peace negotiations by writing a e book that can assist youngsters hold the peace. American has protection:
The youngsters’s e book thought first emerged throughout a Senior Analysis Affiliate (SRA) brainstorming session when Professor [Paul] Williams challenged the scholars to discover inventive methods to interact with peacebuilding. “Half-joking but additionally just a little severe, I steered a youngsters’s e book,” recalled Sydney Robson. Although initially met with laughter, the concept took root because the SRAs noticed it to thank Professor Williams for a transformative expertise.
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To create the e book, Robson uploaded idea maps and chapter drafts from the Constructing Sturdy Peace challenge and used ChatGPT to reimagine them as kid-friendly tales. “With the assistance of ChatGPT, I used these chapters to put in writing new, whimsical tales,” Robson mentioned. The illustrations have been additionally AI-generated and refined with reference pictures of Scrappy and Professor Williams to make sure likeness. “Instantly, Scrappy wasn’t only a cartoon canine, she was our Scrappy, bounding throughout time to learn the way peace is made.”
The e book, titled Scrappy and the Thinker Queens, follows Williams’s canine to debate subjects like disarmament, ladies’s participation, justice, and governance, together with child-friendly variations of the subjects you’d seemingly talk about in Williams’s class. Goes to point out canines can educate youngsters new methods!
The method of creating the e book sounds similar to this TikToker’s $10k a month aspect hustle recommendation:
That’s one method to repay these pupil loans! It might assist to have a aspect hustle in your again pocket as repayment plans are getting dashed against the rocks.
Whereas this can be the primary e book made with ChatGPT on authorized negotiations marketed towards youngsters, I’d anticipate that there’ll nonetheless be quite a lot of competitors. Information Nation discusses the challenges and legality of such an endeavor, warning that advertising and marketing and a altering authorized panorama might decide if “your” e book truly sells or when you can revenue from it. The advertising and marketing side is likely to be extra essential than the “is it authorized” query within the quick time period. The marketplace for on-line books is being flooded by ChatGPT right now, so if you wish to get in, get out with the cash rapidly.
Earnings apart, the e book’s sentimental and commemorative worth is fairly cool. We’ve lined a number of authorized makes use of of ChatGPT on Above the Legislation: lawyers getting sanctioned over AI usage, a law school dean wanting a ChatGPT how-to to be part of the syllabus and the California Bar using AI to generate bar exam questions, to name a few. However making a youngsters’s e book to capstone a category must be essentially the most inventive (and least worthy of ridicule) use of ChatGPT we’ve lined up to now. Better of luck with the e book!
Scrappy And the Philosopher Queens: How Law Students Penned a Peacebuilding Primer for Kids [American]

Chris Williams turned a social media supervisor and assistant editor for Above the Legislation in June 2021. Previous to becoming a member of the employees, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ within the Fb group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. He endured Missouri lengthy sufficient to graduate from Washington College in St. Louis Faculty of Legislation. He’s a former boatbuilder who’s studying to swim, is fascinated by crucial race concept, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for biking that often annoys his friends. You may attain him by electronic mail at [email protected] and by tweet at @WritesForRent.